Comments by "Colorme Dubious" (@colormedubious4747) on "Elon Musk Invents UNDERGROUND Traffic Jam!" video.
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@jasonharris2587 I'm going to have to correct you on that one. "The old Disney monorail" to which you refer was the FORMER Bally's/MGM shuttle that used two refurbished Mark V trains, iirc. The old rolling stock was taken out of service well before the NEW monorail line was opened in July 2004 deploying NEW Bombardier Mark VII rolling stock. There has been NO Disney-sourced equipment on that line since its construction. It also does NOT run "up and down The Strip," but along Paradise Road, Sands Ave, Koval Lane, Krueger Drive, and the alley behind Harrah's and The Flamingo, then zigzags over to Audrie Street before terminating next to the MGM parking garage because the taxi and shuttle companies successfully fought to prevent it from connecting to the airport -- as has often been the case, regretfully, in far too many US cities. Private transportation companies have historically tended to be the very worst obstacles to effective public transportation in America, as evidenced by the many examples of airlines fighting (and killing) high speed intercity rail proposals (Southwest Airlines played a major role in stalling the 1993 Texas HSR plan until it died). Of course, everyone knows about the National City Lines court case and the auto-tire-oil industry conspiracy to demolish many of our streetcar and interurban networks in order to replace clean electric trains with stinky smoke-spewing buses. That paved-over infrastructure would be worth trillions of dollars today, so it's a good thing the court imposed that $5,000 fine on NCL. That sure taught them a lesson!
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